What if your tour guide was an AI?

RT42 leads you through the universe of Artifest as Bucharest becomes a living experience

This September, Bucharest becomes the first European city where you can explore streets, ideas, and contemporary art guided by a generative AI with an urban soul and algorithmic mind.
This is the bold proposal of Artifest—a festival that transforms Romania’s capital into a living map of the future, where technology, culture, and storytelling blend into a powerful humanistic experiment.

RT42 – The digital citizen turning the city into a living platform

Imagine strolling through Lipscani or exploring the University Square—not guided by a traditional app, but by an AI avatar that speaks to you, asks questions, co-creates, and challenges your imagination.
RT42 isn’t just code. It’s Europe’s first humanist digital citizen, created to spark emotional, intellectual, and artistic exchanges with humans in real-time.

At Artifest, RT42 becomes a narrator, a performer, a creative guide, and a co-author of your journey. The city turns into a dynamic interface, a network of interactive moments activated by your interactions with this AI entity.
From hidden corners to iconic landmarks, Bucharest becomes the first city in Europe where AI helps you explore culture, not just navigate space.

5 Thematic Modules. One Story. You and AI in Dialogue

RT42 acts as a compass through five immersive modules—each one unlocking a vital dimension of human-AI collaboration:

🔹 Digital Citizenship – Explore the new ethics, rights, and sense of belonging in an augmented world.
🔹 Immersive Culture – Dive into living installations where art, theater, music, and AI merge in real-time.
🔹 Tech4Good – Discover how technology can address real-world needs like healthcare, education, and social inclusion.
🔹 AI & Creativity – A space where imagination expands through human–machine collaboration.
🔹 Tomorrow’s Learning – Experience education as empathy, participation, and critical thinking.

Urban exploration, redefined by generative AI

For 10 days, Artifest turns Bucharest into an open lab, a 3D map of future living.
Public spaces, museums, creative hubs, and city streets become interactive stages, powered by technology and animated by human curiosity.

With RT42 as your guide, everyday landmarks reveal new meanings:

A statue becomes a trigger for conversations on digital ethics.
A pedestrian underpass turns into an AI-augmented dance stage.
A simple interaction with RT42 opens a poetic dialogue about empathy in the age of algorithms.

You don’t just attend Artifest. You co-create it.

FAQ – Everything you need to know about RT42 and Artifest’s AI experience in Bucharest

What is RT42?
→ RT42 is the first AI humanist digital citizen of Europe—an intelligent avatar that guides you through Artifest’s spaces, themes, and stories.

How do I interact with RT42?
→ Through the Artifest app, via physical installations around Bucharest, or directly in conversation. RT42 gives you custom recommendations, co-creates stories, and reacts to your presence.

Is Artifest only for tech experts?
→ Not at all. It’s for artists, entrepreneurs, educators, developers, or simply curious people. RT42 adapts its language and paths to your interests.

Does RT42 speak English? Romanian?
→ Yes—both, and more. It’s multilingual, empathic, and constantly learning from those it meets.

Why Bucharest?
→ Because Romania is becoming a new voice in the global AI conversation, and its capital is the perfect playground to imagine how technology can enhance humanity—not replace it.